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Spinner Tool to Revise Your Articles

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Are you into article marketing and wanted to repeatedly revise your articles to get pass Google so your articles won't be seen as repeat contents?

Google will penalize a web page to lose its page rank from searches if it is seen as a repeat content. Therefore it is wise to make numerous versions of your article while we submit them to different article submission sites.

We know how it is a laborious work to create numerous versions of an article, but this is only true if you don't have an article spinner at hand.

There are numerous article spinners out there, but the only one that really stands out from the rest, based from my trials, is The Best Spinner.

The things I like about The Best Spinner are the following:
  1. Easy to learn and use.
  2. There is a good library of documentation and video demonstrations.
  3. The software is lite that its easy to install, and does not affect your computers performance.
  4. There is an online capabilities to help you with synonyms 
  5. There is an option to screen your spun articles with CopyScape.
Some of the things I didn't like are only minor:
  1. I received a few spam emails from their other network --but this was easily solved by my email spam protection. There was only a couple of spam senders actually.
  2. To spin an article it must be in txt format --but easily managed by copy and paste method of transferring contents into it.
All in all I am recommending this software as it is reliable, robust and efficient. I am giving it 4 STARS ****


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ComScore Says 2 Million More Australians Go Social in 2009

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2 Million More Australians Go Social in 2009

Social Networking Audience in Australia Jumps 29 Percent in Past Year as Use of Facebook and Twitter Soars
Report Finds Social Networking Critical to Media Landscape in Australia
Sydney, Australia, August 14, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on social networking usage in Australia, which found that more than 70 percent of Internet users in Australia visited a social networking site in June, up 29 percent from the previous year. Facebook continued to show significant growth, while Twitter came onto the social networking scene with a bang in 2009, quickly amassing a significant following. The study also found that social networking users are ubiquitous across the Web, comprising nearly 90 percent of the audience base of the top Internet properties in Australia in June.
“Social networking continues to grow in popularity both across Australia and throughout the world,” said Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. “Social networking is now an essential part of peoples’ daily online routine, providing a level of engagement and reach that far exceeds most other content categories. Understanding how to leverage this audience successfully is both a challenge and significant opportunity for most digital marketers today.”
3 out of 4 Australians Visited a Social Networking Site in June
Nearly 9 million Australians visited a social networking site in June, making it one of the most popular content categories on the Web. Facebook led as the most visited social networking destination with more than 6 million visitors and growing 95 percent from the previous year. MySpace Sites ranked second with 3.5 million visitors, up 5 percent, followed by Windows Live Profile with nearly 2 million visitors. Twitter witnessed the most substantial growth, surging to 800,000 visitors in June, up from just 13,000 visitors a year ago. Orkut also achieved significant growth reaching 252,000 visitors, up 607 percent.
Top Social Networking Sites in Australia Based on Unique Visitors
June 2009
Total Australian Internet Audience*, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore World Metrix
Total Unique Visitors (000)
Jun-08Jun-09% Change
Total Internet : Total Audience11,04412,38612
Social Networking6,8628,85729
FACEBOOK.COM3,1256,10295
MySpace Sites3,3693,5305
Windows Live ProfileN/A1,962N/A
Bebo1,6271,475-9
TWITTER.COM138006,122
DEVIANTART.COM25950595
DIGG.COM32949450
TAGGED.COM24647593
Buzznet26940952
Orkut3625260
*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Audience of Largest Online Properties are Heavy Social Networkers
According to comScore Segment Metrix, a marketing segmentation tool, visitors to the top properties in Australia displayed a strong skew towards also visiting social networking sites. Though less than 72 percent of the total Internet audience in Australia visited social networking sites in June, approximately 90 percent of visitors to the top 20 most popular properties were among this group. Similarly, while 14 percent of the total Internet audience can be classified as “heavy social networkers” (i.e. the top 20 percent of visitors to the social networking category by time spent), approximately 25 percent of visitors to the top 20 properties were among this group.
Top Properties in Australia Based on Unique Visitors with Social Networking User Composition 
June 2009
Total Australian Internet Audience*, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore Segment Metrix
Total Unique Visitors (000)% of Audience that are Social Networkers% of Audience that are Heavy Social Networkers
Total Internet12,38671.514.3
Google Sites10,67478.116.4
Microsoft Sites9,47081.718.0
Facebook.com6,102100.026.0
Yahoo! Sites5,56385.223.4
eBay4,85784.723.7
Fox Interactive Media4,27197.729.9
Apple Inc.4,04888.526.6
Telstra Corporation Limited3,97782.823.6
Wikimedia Foundation Sites3,84891.327.3
AOL LLC2,95595.131.1
News Interactive Pty Limited2,93989.128.5
Fairfax Media2,92188.127.0
Ask Network2,76487.027.4
CBS Interactive2,65390.927.8
Amazon Sites2,17092.431.3
Commonwealth Bank of Australia2,08385.423.3
Glam Media1,86194.235.4
WordPress1,76695.135.4
New York Times Digital1,72893.633.4
Viacom Digital1,65492.532.0
*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Google Sites ranked as the most visited property in Australia in June with 10.7 million visitors, 78 percent of whom were visitors to social networking sites and 16 percent of whom were heavy social networkers. Microsoft Sites ranked as the second largest property with 9.5 million visitors, followed by Facebook.com at #3 with 6.1 million visitors.
Social networking users made up 83 percent of Telstra Corporation visitors, while other local sites also saw their audience base favor social networking, including Fairfax Media (88 percent social networkers) and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (85 percent social networkers). Glam Media and WordPress had the highest composition of heavy social networkers at 35.4 percent each, followed by New York Times Digital (33.4 percent), Viacom Digital (32.0 percent), Amazon Sites (31.3 percent) and AOL LLC (31.1 percent).
“Knowing that the vast majority of a site’s visitors are social networking users should be a wakeup call to any marketer trying to understand its audience,” continued Mr. Hodgman. “Engaging your audience is not only about how you interact with them when they are on your site, but also about how you reach out and interact with them through other online channels, including social networks. As social networking sites increasingly become one of the Internet’s most popular destinations, it is especially critical for media companies to engage their audience where they are spending the majority of their time online.”
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Sunday

New Facebook worm crawling through 'likes'

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New Facebook worm crawling through 'likes'

Posted on: 06/02/10 by Elijah Mendoza

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Thousands of Facebook users are reportedly falling victim to a virus attack that makes use of the social-networking site's "like" feature. The worm, which discreetly makes any random user appear to have "liked" a link, will infect your computer with Troj/iframe-ET worm.
status message
According to Sophos' senior technology consultant Graham Cluley, the messages being used by the spammers include the following:
  • "LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE."
  • "This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!"
  • "The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School."
  • "This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!"
Whenever you see these on your contacts' status messages, DO NOT CLICK ON THEM! Doing so will bring you to a blank website that just says "Click here to continue."
infected page

Should you click, you are unwittingly pressing the "like" button on Facebook, ultimately spreading the Trojan love to your contacts.

Fortunately, the risks of getting infected are low, according to Sophos' virus database. But we all know better than to risk having any unwanted bugs in our PCs.

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Saturday

Protect Your Identity

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Identity Theft

Your identity not merely defines who you are but also distinguishes you to all different businesses, organisations and government bodies. Therefore, it is important to safeguard your identity from thieves, otherwise someone else can impersonate you to gain access to everything you possess, either to steal your money or dent your good reputation.

In this article I will be showing you: the different types of identity theft; the bad consequences after your identity has been stolen; and finally, the many ways to prevent identity theft.


Types of Identity Theft

Such illustrations of identity theft are the following:
  1. Business identity theft, when someone has been using your business data to obtain loans or credit line
  2. Criminal identity theft, when somebody has thieved your personal data to create a false identity to be used in a commission of crime or mischief
  3. Financial identity theft, when another person has thieved your personal data to charge huge purchases or to empty your checking or savings account
  4. Identity cloning, when someone has stolen your personal details to make copy identities to hide from respective authorities

Listed below are the various all-important numbers that form pieces of data of your identification which various businesses and organizations know you:
  1. Tax file number, used by the government and financial institutions
  2. Driver’s license number, employed by insurance carriers, utility companies as well as other financial institutions
  3. Credit card number, employed by your credit card company
  4. Account number, employed by the issuing institution most notably your bank and membership organizations
  5. Personal identification number (PIN), used gain access to your bank ATM account
  6. Username and password, used gain access to your website accounts over the internet
  7.  Birth date, virtually employed by every institutions and businesses


Stolen Identity: What Can Go Wrong?

So  what can go awry if someone was able to get hold of your credit card number, tax file number, bank account details as well as other personal information? Below is a list of activities an identity burglar can do against you:
  1. Wipe all of your money out of your bank account
  2. Open up a new bank account under your name and give out bad cheques from that account
  3.  Make counterfeit cheques using your name and account number
  4. Take on a loan from the bank in your name , for which you are then accountable for paying
  5. Go shopping using your credit card
  6. Open new credit card accounts in your name and then make unauthorised purchases
  7. Switch the billing address on your credit card so you don’t see the bills they’re running up –which means it will take longer for you to discover that your card has been stolen
  8.  Draw on your personal identity to rent an accommodation or obtain utility services
  9.  Instigate a fraudulent tax return using your data
  10.  Pretend to be you on online social networking sites to cause mischief
  11. When captured for criminal activity, give the police your personal data –which puts your name on police records

How Identity Gets Compromised

Because of the fact that internet communication travel over a public network, tech-savvy identity thieves can steal your personal data by obtaining access to your data through a variety of ways as below:
  1. Phishing, where a spoofed email is sent to you pretending to be from your bank or credit company asking you to update your data online. The fake email looks real complete with the bank’s or credit company’s logo and branding which will either ask you to reply your personal details –or direct you to a phishing website where you can type-in the requested data.
  2.  Email Interception, where tech savvy thieves utilize a program to intercept even your private emails –including those which contain your personal data. Wi-Fi Data Sniffing, where a “sniffer” program is employed by thieves, during the time you work in a public Wi-Fi hotspot, to intercept every data you receive from the internet or send via email.
  3. Spyware, where an unauthorised installation of a malicious software in your computer has occurred. This malicious software is a computer virus that sits in the background, without you knowing, to monitor every one of your computer outings and history. When it finds something of exploitable details it goes online to transmit the data to the identity thieve.
  4. Phreaking, where your phone is tapped by an identity burglar to listen to your phone conversations and recording information such as your credit card numbers when you place catalog orders over the phone.
  5.  Pre-texting, where an identity thieve calls you over the telephone pretending to be from your bank requesting that you confirm your account details.
  6. Computer Data Recovery, where an identity thieve gets hold of your computer, either by you losing it or disposing it, and retrieves the stored personal details from that computer.
  7. Scavenging, where an identity thieve rifles through your business or household trash to find thrown away receipts, account statements and data records.
  8. Address Hijacking, where an identity thieve fills-out a change in address form at the post office to redirect your incoming mails to his address.

How to prevent Identity Theft

Becoming aware of the risks and consequences is already an excellent start in avoiding identity theft. Hardening your line of defence is now a matter of keeping your personal details secure by considering the following suggestions:

1.       Create a culture of awareness
o    You can sign up for newsletters or maintaining a safety culture in your business or associations. Being informed whenever there is a new scam or threat is very significant.
o    Such websites and organisations that can help you with online safety awareness are as follows:
ü    ASBO, Association of Small Business Owners:  http://webdesigntek.com/asbo
ü    http://www.e-businessguide.gov.au/protecting/tips
ü    http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/scamwatch
ü    http://www.dsd.gov.au/library/infosec/ism.html
ü    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/
ü    http://www.bankers.asn.au/Default.aspx?ArticleID=846

2.        Create secure passwords
o    Create considerably prolonged passwords comprising of alpha-numeric, lower and upper cases and special characters (like !@#$). An example of a strong password is s3Cur3&sAf3@21jumPstr33t.
o    Do not use familiar identifiers which include birth date, phone number or licence number.

3.       Create secure password reminders
o     Instead of storing your password as they are, it is a lot better if you store them personally encrypted as a password reminder. In that case if an identity thieve was able to get access to your record, he will still end up getting stuck breaking your encrypted password.

4.       Create password-protected user accounts and individual files in your computer
o    In this way, even when the identity burglar gets hold of your computer, he will get stuck breaking passwords to your sensitive.

5.       Install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs
o    This program suite offers a lot of protection and warning against phishing websites, spywares and viruses.
o    Some free anti-virus softwares include:
ü   Avast: http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
ü   AVG: http://free.avg.com/ww-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free
ü   Avira: http://www.free-av.com/
o    Some free anti-spyware softwares include:
ü    SuperAntiSpyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
ü   SpyBot : http://www.safer-networking.org
ü    Malwarebytes: http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

6.       Install a firewall software
o     This program blocks unauthorized incoming and outgoing transmissions (like hacking) over the internet.
o    Some free firewall softwares include:
ü   ZoneAlarm: http://download.cnet.com/ZoneAlarm-Free-Firewall/3000-10435_4-10039884.html
ü   Comodo Firewall for Windows: http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html

7.       Practice safe browsing
o    When carrying out work at a public Wi-Fi a secure way to protect your data is to log on to encrypted sites. Encrypted sites are those whose URL starts with https: instead of http:
o    Be sure to log-off from internet websites subsequently after your work is done.
o    Don't forget to scan email attachments, regardless if it came from your dependable friend, just before opening it.
o    Always scan USB’s you have used in a public internet cafe before using it to your computer.
o    Be sure to check your URL browser. Distinguish if the site is a phishing site by taking notice of the spellings. For example, google.com is not the same as go0gle.com or g00gle.com
o    Before clicking hyperlinks, hover first your mouse over to check where you will be directed. If in doubt, right-click your mouse over the link and copy the URL address –then paste it to the search box of the following websites to check the URL’s safety ratings.
ü    http://www.siteadvisor.com
ü    http://safeweb.norton.com
ü   Way much better is just to install a browser extension like WOT add-on to save you time from checking links out. The WOT add-on shows you which websites you can trust for safe surfing, shopping and searching on the web. This safe surfing browser tool is easy-to-use, fast and completely free: http://www.mywot.com/en/download
o    Be aware that there are hyperlinks that are fake –which directs you to another site than is written. The following is an example of a hyperlink that directs you to another site:
ü    Google.com --recognize that the spelling is correct and yet you will discover that instead of leading you to Google’s site, you are being directed my website, Webdesigntek site. Hover your mouse over the hyperlink and you will see the URL webdesigntek.com instead. Just what exactly can an identity thieve can do using this fraud link? He can direct you to a phishing site with you hastily not observing.

8.       Tidy your email inbox and archives
o    Do not store sensitive emails in your inbox and archives folder for a very long time.

9.       Shred discarded documents and cards
o    Use your shredder regularly. Shred statements, receipts, insurance forms, medical records and the likes –including old credit cards, driver’s licence along with membership cards.

10.   Update your software patches
o    You've probably learned about security "holes" that turn up periodically. Once they're discovered, it is possible to download fixes. For Windows users, an easy way to update your system is by hitting the Windows Update option under the Start menu or by pointing your web browser to this link: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
o    Updating your softwares regularly like your anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall and other application softwares like MS Office Suites is a very good practice to avoid being hit by newly created viruses or through newly discovered vulnerabilities.

11.   Back-up your data
o    Make copies of your files just in case they become corrupted, your system fails or your computer is damaged or stolen. Acquire the habit of accomplishing this regularly, no less than once a week. Even better, set your system to automatically back up your files. Learn more.

12.   Hire a skilled webmaster (me!)
o     It is a good thing to have a skilled web designer on your side who is knowledgeable of database driven websites and internet security. By doing so you have a tech-savvy companion to assist you in safeguarding your all-important data.


Is This Article Useful?

This article is only the first of the series I am intending to write to touch on “online and offline security”. So if you would like to follow this article series I suggest that you bookmark this blog.

If you think that there are subjects or information that I have missed to include in this article, your input is very much welcomed. Just drop a note.

I hope you have found this article very informative and useful, especially at increasing your business security. If not, let me know how to improve for my next article. Please drop a note.

Thank you for reading.

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 Joemar Lacson
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